DEFINITION
Mark-making is essentially making marks using dots, lines, textures and patterns. It differs in style from artist to artist, hence every piece of artwork done by mark-making is one-of-a-kind.
Mark-making can be used to create not only recognisable pictures, but also abstract art. It can be ” descriptive, expressive, conceptual or symbolic”, as stated in https://www.thoughtco.com/how-does-mark-making-affect-your-paintings-2577630 .
ARTISTS’ WORKS
Jean Fautrier: Large Tragic Head, 1942
This sculpture is marked with indentations. It is distorted and battered, and such markings express the horrifying experience Fautrier faced during WWII. Perhaps I can use this mark-making method of creating indentations in my project work.
Eva Hesse: ‘Untitled’, 1967
This artwork is done on graph paper, and circles are drawn into it. Perhaps I can use grid paper or something similar to work on. That will be quite interesting.
METHODS OF MARK-MAKING
- Calligraphy
- Pen and ink
- Pasting things ( eg. Thread. Sand painting.)
- Grattage pressed onto ( scraping wet/dried paint from canvas with blade)
- Torn paper collage
- Decalomania ( to spread paint on glass or something similar and pressing the paper onto it )
- e cremage ( oily liquid with water-based pigment or vice-versa smeared or pressed onto paper )
- Frissage ( crumple paper, smoothed and inked )
- Coulage ( molten materials poured into water)
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Monoprint making links:
Additive- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnmGNqQL2kg
Reductive- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Q7dWnzTCU
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